When I turn on the shower, water is not making it up to the shower head, rather spraying out from behind the knobs to turn the shower on? Is it just bad gaskets? How should I repair.

I recently bought a house that is ~30 years old. It has copper pipes. When I first noticed yellow water I flushed my hot water tank, but the water problems persists and it occurs even when I'm running cold water. There is some sediment in the water that looks like the iron content in well water,...

Help! The hot and cold water coming out of the kitchen sink faucet are never really "hot" and "cold"... always lukewarm-ish. I've tried messing with the valves underneath the sink, but I don't know if they are both supposed to be open all the way or if one should be open and the other closed......

We "had" our plumbing problem "fixed" by a pro. It still does not work. Our upstairs bathroom has both hot & cold water when a sink facucet is turned on. But, in the bathtub, only the cold water works. Had it "fixed" almost a year ago, just had company, and there is no hot water coming out of...

We live in a split-level house built in 1965; it has three residential levels plus a basement. Our bathrooms are on the upmost level, and the hot water heater is in the basement. The showers lose cold water whenever someone uses the kitchen sink, dishwasher, toilet, or bathroom sinks. The shower...